Special Love, Inc.
Special Love, Inc.
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About this organization
Mission
Special Love provides a strong, nurturing environment for children with cancer and their families; through its free camps and get-away weekends, emergency financial assistance, personal development programming for young adult cancer survivors and educational scholarships for young adults who want to move on from cancer and on with their lives. Since its inception in 1983, nearly 1,000 children and families each year benefit from Special Love’s support, coming from up and down the east coast, as well as areas all across the country through its unique partnership with the National Institutes of Health.
About
Camp Fantastic - Weeklong camp for children with cancer. It's a fun-filled week of swimming, canoeing, horseback riding, marshmallow roasting, campfire singing and pillow fighting. Medical staff are present for the entire week of camp to care for the children.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The purpose of the non-profit is stated in the filing as “To provide cancer families a network of support, made up of other patients and families who know and understand the trials and triumphs of the cancer experience.”.
Their activities were defined as: “To provide enriching activities for children with cancer.”.
- As per legal requirements, the non-profit's state of operation is reported as VA.
- The non-profit's address in 2020 as per the filing is 117 YOUTH DEVELOPMENT COURT, WINCHESTER, VA, 22602.
- The form of the non-profit organization shows 8 employees as of 2020.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is -$21,611.
- The organization has 18 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1983.
- The organization pays $579,663 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $118,296 in fundraising expenses.
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